Merkel criticises leader of her CDU party for cooperating with German far-right

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1. Considering how big AFD became, it will be harder and harder to succeed in passing bills in parliament without their votes.

2. Considering that the AfD was the direct result of her policies… I don’t think she is the best person to criticize Merz.

3. Funny how she is complaining about that while ignoring her role in creating a feeling in the people that they need a far-right party to reverse most of her policies.

4. Merkel still does not understand that she created the circumstances for this to happen.

5. Could somebody criticize her for cooperating with the Russian far-right government?

6. That’s rich coming from the West’s number one Putin enabler…

7. She is not wrong. When PVV started gaining more ground in the Netherlands, other right wing parties like VVD who previously didn’t want to work with them thought they could steal some voters back by saying they are open to collaborate with PVV. All it accomplished was that they normalized the PVV in people’s eyes and caused more people to vote for them.

   A big mistake happening now in politics everywhere (see also Harris’ campaign against Trump) is that many parties believe by leaning further right they can win votes from the ‘sensible right wing voters’ against the extreme right wing. But they all fail to understand that right wing voters already have their pick to vote for so they gain little while they are actively losing left/centrist voters who become disillusioned with the party’s leaning to the right.

   Then as the right wing takeover continues they will blame the disillusioned voters for not voting for ‘the lesser evil’ as if people should be fine making compromise after compromise because the political leaders are populist trend chasers.

8. Merkel is mad that someone took immigration seriously, in other words water is wet

9. The policies CDU is now putting forward to “solve” the “problem” are, and the CDU knows it, illegal under the current European treaties Germany is a part of.

   If they convince they voters that these policies are what is needed to “solve” the “problem,” what’s gonna happen when the CJEU says you can not do these policies as long as you are in the EU?

   Merz has started a path that eventually leads to Dexit.

10. Oh and who made the far right this big? Whose policies did that?

    Also who wanted NS2?

    All of this was a ground work for the mess that she is now critizicinzg, zero self reflection

11. I‘ve always been a fan of Angie on a lot of topics and while she‘s not wrong here, I don’t think it’s appropriate for her to sit on the high horse, when she’s the one who steered the country into all this mess regarding migration. Politicians have to get their hands dirty now to clean up her mistakes.

12. Well Merkel is the one that really created the party

13. Merkel herself didn’t mind co-operating with Vladimir Putin, a human-rights violator.

14. I think she should just not speak because everything that is happening right now is her fault.

15. “Former chancellor that caused horrible consequences with her policy grapples with the consequences of her actions”.

    Merkel needs to take responsibility for her out of place idealism and what it created in German society. The errors will have to be righted in the years ahead. For Merkel the only question should be how she wants to be remembered, and it appears she is taking the famous double down approach.

    In short: Angela learned nothing.

16. The far right’s rise is directly tied to the decade and a half of her policy.

17. Nice sentiment, but when she was chancellor and leader of the CDU, the EPP tolerated an enemy of democracy like Orban in their group for years.

    A bit hypocritical of her to point fingers when she showed willingness to cooperate with someone like Orban

18. Die Afd only exists because of Merkel

19. Church and nazi’s that shit again.

20. I would argue that this is fallout of her open border policy during refugee crisis that resulted in surge of AfD popularity.

21. Rich from Merkel, since she even now can’t admit wrongdoing to cooperating with Russian nazi state for years even after 2008 occupation of Georgia, and 2014 occupation of Ukraine.

22. You create a problem, losing in the course of that action any credibility you or your party could have that you are against mass migration, and then you cry because AfD is at 20%.

    I would never vote for AfD, but if they get second place (like the Nazis did in 1930, and then got first place in 1933) it will be her fault.

23. Merkel should just stfu probably.

24. “You’re being too lazy in putting out the fire” says woman who poured gasoline all over the place

25. Bitch you cooperated with the godfather of the far-right, Putin, for decades. And then defended your decision during and afterwards.

    Having said that, she’s not wrong to criticize those cooperating with the AfD. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Repeating Merkel’s mistakes is insanity.

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